CVE-2005-1530 Information

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1 with \Scan inside archive files\ enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large ‘Extra field length’ value.

Reference

http://securitytracker.com/id?1014488 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=283&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14270 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21373